Setting IP address not working

From: Alan Chandler (alan_at_chandlerfamily.org.uk)
Date: 06/14/05

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    I am having a strange problem setting my ip address on my only (eth0)
    ethernet connection.

    If I use either a static or dhcp iface stanza in /etc/network/interfaces it
    fails.

    Here is the output from the dhcp version.
     ---------------------------------------------

    Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
    Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
    All rights reserved.

    Please contribute if you find this software useful.
    For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

    sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
    sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
    Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06
    Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:da:cf:a5:06
    Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
    DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPACK from 192.168.0.20
    SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
    bound to 192.168.0.21 -- renewal in 10800 seconds.
    RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address

     -------------------------------------

    What are the following?

    a) Reference to device sit0 - where did this come from
    b) What is this error message? "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists"
    c) RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address

     

    The ip address I end up with is 169.254.50.3 (which I am guessing is some
    default in the device driver code).

    But I can't see what I am doing wrong. Any advice to get more info, or even
    to fix it?

    (I am running Debian Unstable)

     

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    Alan Chandler
    alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk 

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